Improvement in machines for forming wire bails



UNITED STATES JOHN P. VAN BEAMER, OF GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TOIIIMSELF AND ATEN `ELLIS THOMPSON, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR FORMING WIRE BAILS.

Specification forming-part of Letters Patent No. 119,204, datedSeptember 19, 1871.

To all whom It may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN P. VAN BEAMER, of Galesburg, in the county ofKnox and State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvements inCombined Wire-Cutter, Bail-Former, and. Pan- Handle Turner, of which thefollowing is a specification:

The nature of my invention relatesto the combination, in a simplemachine for tinners use, of

fa wire-cutter with holder and gauge; adevice for forming buckets orother bails; and. another for turning the wire handles generally used bytinners for pans, te.; and the invention consists: First, in thecombination and arrangement with a lever-cutter of a curved holder, soconstructed as to hold firmly the end of a wire to be cut from the usualcoiled bundle, a sliding gauge operating therewith to hold the wire tocut the desired length, all as hereinafter fully described. Second, itrelates to the combination with the lever used in the first device of asimple device for holding abucket or other bail and giving the desiredshort curves, usually placed at each side of the handle thereon, for thepurpose of keeping it in position, all as hereinafter fully described.Third, it consists in the combination of a simple conical-shaped postwith a part of aforesaid devices in such position that a wire may bereadily curved thereon to suit different-sized pans, for

` handles, all as hereinafter fully described.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is across-section of Fig. 1 on the line w a2. Fig. 3 is a bucket-bail,showing the crook. Fig. bis a perspective view of the post L of Fig. 1.

A is the bed or base-plate, to which are secured the other parts of themachine. B is the upper and swinging blade of the wire-cutter, and ispivoted at one end between the posts b b, its other end passing betweenand beyond the posts or standards C C. D is the hand-lever for operatingthe blade B. It is pivoted between the posts C C, above the blade B,eccentric toits curved end, so that when its upper end` is drawn forwardand downward toward the free end of the blade B its eccentric end willimpinge on the upper side of the blade B, driving it downward with:great force. E is the lower and. station ary blade of the cutters. Gis aplate curved in itsl cross-section,

scribed by letters so 'far is as follows: One end l of the wire, whichis shown by dotted lines J in a bundle or coil at Fig. 1, is slippedunder the edge of the holder-plate G until its end rests again st arecess, h, in the under side of the sliding gauge H, which gauge H isrst set at the distance from the cutter B E of the length required tocut said wire; then, by bringing forward the handleverD, the wire may beeasily and smoothly cut off; and it will be plainly seen that any numbermay be cut of exactly the same lengtha great desideratum in cutting thestiffeningwires for the edges of pans, 6to., where it is desirable tohave them the same size, and a very difficult thing to secure inmeasuring' and cutting wires from bundles in the ordinary way, by hand.

L is a standard at one side of the posts b b and in rear of posts O (l.The one side of the top of the standard L is recessed with asemicircular groove with a radius a little greater than that of thewooden handle in general use on wire bails for buckets, &c. The side ofthe standard L next the posts O is carried up even with the top thereof,as shown, and contains a small groove, l, in its upper surface. M is alug on the side of the standard L next to posts (l.

The operation of the last-described devices is as follows: The handle,(wooden,) shown at Fig. 8 by letter N, is slipped on to the desiredplace on the `bail a. Said handle is then laid in the groove or largerecess in the top of the standard L, with the wire bail projecting outover the recess Z. Now, if the hand-lever D is drawn back until thenotch d on its rear side strikes the wire n, and then pressed downwarduntil the said wire strikes the lug or shoulder M, it will give the wiren the crooks a', shown at Fig. 3, at the side of the handle N, and, byturning the handle end for end inthe machine, both sides may be crookedalike. Pis a conical post standing on the base A and near the side ofthe standard b. The dotted lines p are deemed to explain sufficientlyclearly the 2. The combination and arrangement of lever method of usingthis part of the device in turn- D, cutters B E, plate C, sliding gaugeH, standing-the oblongwirehandles, one of which is shown ard L, and postP, constructed and operating hy said dotted lines p, and which are usedfor substantially as and for the purpose speeied. pans and similarvessels. JOHN P. VAN BEAMER.

l. The lever D, operating with relation to the Witnesses: standard L andcritters B E, substantially es und BLATT R. RICHARDS, for the purposesset forth. WM. S. WING.

